Business Description: Dr. Shimizu is a top neurologist in the US & practices in Los Angeles. He specializes in managing chronic pain, nerve disorders, multiple sclerosis, facial pain, & other neurological disorders.
Dr. Russ Shimizu has been dedicated to his patients and community for 35 years. He has a professional and compassionate personality with his patients, and his office provides patients with the best neurological diagnostic tests and treatments available in Los Angeles.
Dr. Shimizu has had an impeccable career in medicine and service to his patients starting with practice in neurology, neurological­ surgery and psychiatry at UCLA County Medical Center, 1967-1968. He had a distinguished career in the United States Public Health Service and the United States Coast Guard where he practiced Internal Medicine for three years in Alaska.
He returned to Los Angeles and completed his residency in Neurology at UCLA School of Medicine and became Chief Resident in 1974. He has been Assistant Clinical Professor of Neurology at UCLA School of Medicine since 1975 and a Clinical professor at USC since 2000.
Dr. Shimizu served as Chairman of Neurology at Saint John’s Medical Center and Santa Monica Medical Center. He was the Clinical Director of Electrodiagnostics at Santa Monia Medical Center from 1985 to 1995. He has been featured as an Outstanding Neurologist in Southern California in Los Angeles Magazine in 2010 & 2011.